March 2nd, 2016Hyderabad: Banyan Nation, a plastic based waste management and recycling company has recently raised a funding of $800,000 (Rs. 5.3 crores). Banyan is a startup that offers FREE On-Demand and Recurring recyclable waste pickup services to townships, apartments, small and medium businesses, large corporations and independent homes.
The...

March 2nd, 2016Jabong, India's one of the leading Fashion ecommerce company has raised additional funds by Global Fashion Group (GFG), so that it can stay afloat for one more year.
"The board has agreed to put more than $20 million in Jabong," a person who participated in the meeting held in Luxembourg told ET.GFG was founded in 2011 by Swedish...

February 29th, 2016Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook has invested $13 million (around Rs. 90 crore) in Hopscotch, a Mumbai-based online retailer in a Series C round. Hopscotch is an E-commerce service, focusing on Kids Fashion Wear.
Hopscotch is the same company that secured $11 Million funding last year in a Series B round led by Saverin's Velos...

February 29th, 201629th February, 2016. Bangalore, India: Unitus Seed Fund, India’s most active seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses, announced its investment in DriveU, a firm that aggregates on-demand drivers for private car owners in India.
If Uber and Ola have changed the way people travel in urban India, there has been another...

February 28th, 2016Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in home rental company NestAway Technologies, a statement said.
This is Tata's eighth personal investment in a startup in 2016 so far. He has invested in over 20 startups.
NestAway turns unbranded, unfurnished houses into fully furnished and managed apartments and...

February 25th, 2016Indian online travel venture Ibibo Group today announced that Naspers will invest USD 250m in the group, which will focus extending ibibo's leadership position in the Indian hotels category and on additional technology innovations.
Ibibo processed more than 6.5m transactions for the period October to December (Q3) 2015. It is the...

February 22nd, 2016February 22, 2016: TaskBob, a Mumbai-based Home services provider startup has raised Rs28 crore ($4 million) from Ivy Cap Ventures and existing investors Orios and Mayfield, according to a report in The Economic Times. Taskbob will use this fund to expand into other cities and boost growth.
This is the first investment in the home...

February 22nd, 2016Magicpin, a hyperlocal discovery app, founded by Investor-turned-entrepreneurs Brij Bhushan and Anshoo Sharma have raised $3 million in Series A round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
The app offers Instagram-like features where users can take pictures and selfies to avail of offers and discounts at neighbourhood...

February 20th, 2016Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google.
In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using...

February 19th, 2016Many of you did not hear about this company but Jana (meaning “people” in Sanskrit) the only Facebook competitor in emerging markets regarding free Internet service raises $57million in Series C funding, led by new investor like Verizon Ventures, with participation from our existing investors, Spark Capital and Publicis...